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Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes [Updated]

Digital comics | Hewlett Packard's newly announced TouchSmart 310 -- it's an all-in-one touchscreen desktop PC with a starting price of $699.99 -- will give users access to more than 8,000 Marvel comics, thanks to a deal between HP and Disney: "TouchSmart users will now be able to buy and download special versions of classic comics, and then literally thumb through them with on-screen controls. More than 8,000 Marvel titles are available, which HP says is the most extensive digital collection ever offered from any content partner." [PCMag.com, TG Daily]

UPDATE: Marvel has issued a clarification, as well as an official press release: "HP TouchSmart Apps Center will offer streaming access to over 8,000 digital comics from Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited. None of these digital comics will be downloadable."

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Legal | The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court to affirm a lower court's ruling that a California law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minor is unconstitutional. [press release, Game Rant]

Publishing | Over the past six years, Oni Press has printed more than 1 million copies of Bryan Lee O'Malley's bestselling Scott Pilgrim series. [iFanboy]

Creators | Robert Kirkman discusses "the state of the graphic novel": "As the industry struggles, people will latch onto mainstream comic books. But DC and Marvel will appeal to a wider audience; it's just an issue of finding new ways of reaching the wider audience. The main way to get comics is through stores, usually through specialty comic stores (although bookstores like Barnes and Nobel will carry compilations or what the public considers graphic novels.) As more and more people start getting comics in their living room, on their iPad, or whatever device, there'll be less demand for Marvel and DC 60-year-old superhero characters doing the same thing month in and month out, and we'll be more into trying out original ideas. I'm very excited about the future because of that." [The Atlantic]

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Creators | Fred Van Lente talks about his comics work, from Action Philosophers and Comic Book Comics to The Incredible Hercules and Chaos War. [The Long and Shortbox of It]